Sammich lol. Reminds me of an old friend and that's what she always said it. She was also a medical transcriptionist and electrolytes was speeeeled electric lights even after we all showed her the right way. And dang it all to heck, she be white! 
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Slap Stick
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I used to work for a guy who called it a samowich.
In mu opinion, JUST not the same!
As cr8crsh put it:
1. It's the Bastardizing of the spoken and written English language.
2. It's the Dummying down of the populace.
The willful act to not conform.
Not an East Coast dialect that I STILL have
ocdart
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I was born and raised here in SoCal and never ran into the "ask vs. aks" pronunciation until I got to Basic Training at Ft. Polk, Louisiana.
The very first time I heard "aks" was from my Drill Sargeant - and I wasn't about to question anything he said!
The very first time I heard "aks" was from my Drill Sargeant - and I wasn't about to question anything he said!
For fucks sake!! Thats how the Norwegians talk!!
I had a shop teacher, [white] in college that had a slight speech impediment. The 2 big ones I remember he said were quarger=quarter, and baddrey=battery. It cracked up the class when he talked about his quager beer night in class.
Good call not to question!!!
Have you been around any secind and 3rd generation Scandinavians? Have you been around 2nd and 3rd generation Germans? You need to travel to the upper midwest...way up there. Iron range and north in MN and northern WI. Go up into the UP of MI and listen to them talk. It is just a dialect not much different then the ghetto.
Now the **** they talk about is a whole other discussion...
steve from staten island
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Dialects are not dummying down the populace. I dont know were the statement "The willful act to not conform'' comes into play but whatever floats your boat.
Aarons Air
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Just paid my Sears mastercard bill, at Sears. The black cashier informed me twice that the terminal was going to ' aks" me questions
When done she bid me good bye with, " have a GOOT one". Though it was said in a friendly manner, i found it unprofessional.
When done she bid me good bye with, " have a GOOT one". Though it was said in a friendly manner, i found it unprofessional.
Slap Stick
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I bin to da Dakoootas. Eh?
And today I learnt a haf a werd. Mutha.
And today I learnt a haf a werd. Mutha.
cr8crshr
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Yep I have and even spent more time then I would have liked up in Ya...Hey Der land. Too many O'lees, Sven's, Lina's to suit me. But it is more of the local when it comes to dialects and pronunciations. The main point from the OP is how illiterate people have become because they don't want to improve themselves using the verbal word and prose. They then wind up working in a menial job...can one say Mickey D's...and demand a so called living wage from those types of establishments and still talk like an ignoramus. Our education system as it stands now has completely done away from the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. The foundations of being a success later in life and that is my opinion only. But you seem to want to compare dialect with ghetto and there is no comparison. Dialect is regional where ghetto is slang. And you know what? It's every where one turns and that is just plan incomprehensible...cr8crshr/Tuck
Sillycomb = Silicone
Hoe the Doe = Hold the door
Glenwood
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Must be a yankee thing. The only time I've ever heard aks was on everybody loves Raymond show. I thought it was some sort of speech impediment such as when my sister could not pronounce spaghetti when she was very young. She would mix up some letters all the time.
Overuse and improper use of the word "like" seems to be the trend up here with our youth.
Overuse and improper use of the word "like" seems to be the trend up here with our youth.
It looks like the majority of responses here are discussing -language stumbling and bumbling- with race or ethnicity as being a factor.
Our language is constantly trashed and for the most part, it is intended depending on the situation.--(A kind of singing/chanting if you will)
What amuses me (and likely Kern as well) is when the media speakers that (presumably intend on clarity and believability) smash up the language and meaning of words as a matter of course.---When one is asked (in an official investigative situation) what the meaning of the word "it" is--how can laughter be suppressed?
My favorite word that is mispronounced a majority of the time is nuclear.--In fact my spell check tells me I have even spelled it wrong here.
Most speakers of the word give it three syllables. nu-cu-ler.
It is a two syllable word--nu-clear.
I guess the stumble comes from the word--clear- that is one of many that are tough to speak as one syllable.
As others have said --speaking is a complex gymnastics and a skill that is learned like any other task. Some languages train/teach what can become really tough to overcome. My Scotish grandmother (for example) had a very strong accent/brogue. She learned it early and never lost it into her nineties.
Our language is constantly trashed and for the most part, it is intended depending on the situation.--(A kind of singing/chanting if you will)
What amuses me (and likely Kern as well) is when the media speakers that (presumably intend on clarity and believability
) smash up the language and meaning of words as a matter of course.---When one is asked (in an official investigative situation) what the meaning of the word "it" is--how can laughter be suppressed?My favorite word that is mispronounced a majority of the time is nuclear.--In fact my spell check tells me I have even spelled it wrong here.
Most speakers of the word give it three syllables. nu-cu-ler.
It is a two syllable word--nu-clear.I guess the stumble comes from the word--clear- that is one of many that are tough to speak as one syllable.
As others have said --speaking is a complex gymnastics and a skill that is learned like any other task. Some languages train/teach what can become really tough to overcome. My Scotish grandmother (for example) had a very strong accent/brogue. She learned it early and never lost it into her nineties.
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Your mention of the use of the word "like" is a good example of how learning --speak-- is still underway.
When one uses the word -like- in your example, --they are using it as a comma in speach. They could as well have used --er--um--uh instead.
BTW--All of my speaking here on this topic is just from my uneducated observations over the years. English was tops for my least liked topics in school.
Just for fun--- let's start a conversation about proper -punctuation- in posting.
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